Clarion appoints Hill to develop High Path homes

Clarion Housing has hired Essex-based contractor Hill to develop the first phase of new homes being built around a major estate regeneration scheme in south west London.

Hill will build 134 homes on land currently not being used for housing at High Path in south Wimbledon as part of a major redevelopment plan for Merton.

Planning permission for the £35m job – which will deliver 125 apartments and nine houses – was granted in March 2017.

Building work is expected to start in a matter of weeks and is expected to be completed in 2021.

Bob Beaumont, Clarion’s director of regeneration, said 1,700 homes would eventually be delivered at High Path (pictured) through the group’s Merton regeneration project.

“Every one of the 134 homes being built by Hill will go to Clarion residents and leaseholders who already live on the High Path estate,” Beaumont added.

In May Clarion submitted reserved matters planning applications for 284 homes, some of which it aims to build at High Path as well as Ravensbury and Eastfields in Mitcham.

Clarion has already been granted outline planning permission to deliver a total of 2,800 new homes, including 740 social rented units, and 9,000m² of commercial and community space, across the three neighbourhoods in Merton.

In April Hill was appointed to build 229 homes for Notting Hill Genesis as part of the housing association’s revamp of the Aylesbury estate in south London, a job which will see 3,500 homes built in the next two decades.